device recognition

Windows 11 users have grown accustomed to both the promise of innovation and the reality of recurring bugs with each cumulative update. The release of KB5053598, along with its subordinate patch KB5052093, brings a fresh batch of much-needed fixes and feature improvements for File Explorer and...

With Patch Tuesday once again arriving, Windows 11 users are greeted with a substantial update: KB5053598, now rolling out widely to the highly anticipated Windows 11 24H2 release. This cumulative update doesn’t just advance the OS to Build 26100.3476 but stakes familiar ground for Microsoft’s...

I installed every single driver from the Microsoft and HP sites and I STILL don't know what this device is and I still have NO touchscreen listed in HID when it was there before! Someone out there has to have an answer! All other mouse, touchscreen and other input devices work!

So one day I was playing a game, hoi4, and I paused it shut my computer off, and left for a few hours. I come back my computer shut but it's still running, I open it and my screen and computer is frozen, so I hard shut down. When the computer is on next thing I know none of my USBs will work...

Ok, so I'm not sure where exactly to post this, but I'm in need of some major help with my Zune! I love my Zune but I've given up unless someone can help. My original Zune purchased in 2006 finally gave up. I purchased one on eBay, new in box of the same kind, just different color. My old...

I just performed this update on my HP notebook and now I cannot connect my Samsung Galaxy J5 phone to the notebook. The notebook always recognized the device before, not now.

Hi, I was hoping someone could help me, i have a Lenovo Ideapad 510 laptop with windows 10 64bit. The laptop is only about 3 months old. It has 2 x USB 3.0 slots and 1 x USB 2.0. I have recently bought a USB 3.0 hard drive enclosure and i can only connect it to the USB 2.0 port. If i connect...

Running underWin7 SP1. I'm not sure just how iTunes gets involved here, so please bear with me. My daughter used to have no problem downloading photos/videos from her iPhone just by making a USB connection, and presumably iTunes was what noticed the connection; however, the activity resembled...

Hi guys, First of all, let me say that I am a very tech savy person. I've been using windows since the 90s, used almost build computers, and code websites.. so most of the 'basic' trouble shooting I have done already. I have spent hours trying to find fixes for these problems. I have a 2012...

Since I upgraded to Windows 10, my pc doesn't see or recognize either of my iPhones. Before, with Windows 7, the iphone would show up in File Explorer so I could copy photos to my PC. My iPhone is recognized by iTunes, and another computer I have that is still running Windows 7 recognizes it...

Hi I have 2 days ago upgraded from windows 7 home . all went smoothly but now no matter what , i cant get Windows to recognize any of four usb flash drives . Mouse, keyboard , printer , phone cord all connect thru usb and work fine but not flash drives .What can I do? Message from windows is "...

Hi there! I use Wacom tablet for a thousand years. My computer knows my tablet more than well. It is plugged usualy to the most distant USB on computers back. Sometimes I have to plug it to the other USB. And after that (every time) there is a bubble-system-message with little animated icon...

I try to back up my files using Windows 8.1 file history in System and Security>File History. The default drive is to one letter belonging to a USB stick. I am not able to select another drive. The USB stick does not have the storage required to save my back up files. How am able to change...

So I just upgraded my Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit to Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit, and before I upgraded my computer recognized my Turtle Beach X12's as a headset and a microphone. When I plugged in my headphones it only used them as a headset and didn't work as a microphone. How can I make...

My Acer Aspire A7600U-UR24 came with windows 8. I made a recovery drive by choosing "create recovery drive" in windows 8. After making the drive i installed windows 8.1 from DVD. Some time later I tried to restore it back to factory with my recovery usb. Every time I try I get "windows cannot...

I have a few usb ports on this computer - 2 on the front panel r driven via the std usb connector and 2 r driven via the USB3 connector on the MB which provides USB2 & 3. When I plug a certain device into the std ports I get the device not recognized. When I plug it into the usb3 ports...

I have a 1tb HP External HDD that has a lot of files on it. The drive worked fine until yesterday and when I plugged it into the USB port it activated as "CD Drive (G:) HP Launcher". I used explorer and was not able to locate any of my files. There are 2 files showing: 1. HPLauncher.exe 2...

I have an Alienware 18. Today tried updated to windows 8.1, it failed on the first try, stopping at 83% after rebooting and almost finishing the installation. I retried installing, it did the same thing, however, this time (i accepted my defeat) when signing back in, my wifi was not recognized...

I use windows 8. Recently I have bought an external hard disk[toshiba] with USB 3.0 support. I have one port in my laptop with USB 3.0. My every hardware drivers are up to date[Including my BIOS]. The problem is when i connect hdd to 3.0 port, what i get is 2.0. [There's a light that show up...

Hi After having a failed attempt to go back to an earlier restore point (the computer just sat there for ever saying that it was restoring the registry, so I finally shut it off) my computer wouldn't boot so I tried several attempts at automatic repair from the disk etc. I started getting a...